Political Science and Public Policy: Internet Resources

"The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania performs research in the fields of political communication, information and society, media and the developing child, health communication and adolescent risk."

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy think tank based in Washington, DC.

The Cato Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.

"Centered at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Scholarly research and current data about American women's political participation. Its mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about women's participation in politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life."

"ISPP is and interdisciplinary organization representing all fields of inquiry concerned with exploring the relationships between political and psychological processes."

Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.

"A nonpartisan think tank that provides information social and economic policy issues. Includes research data, reports, briefs, policy papers and more."

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources is an Internet directory of over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of information and analysis on all topics of international significance including area studies, human rights, international organizations, maps, economics, peace and conflict resolution, & much more. Maintained by the WWW Virtual Library.

"The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress. Also included are Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico."

The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet.Yale has been home to some of the world’s foremost political scientists and the current faculty includes diverse practitioners of all the major methodologies of political science.

Crash Course is a YouTube channel that contains educational videos. This Crash Course course provides an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function how it actually does function. It also discusses branches of government, politics, elections, political parties, and more.

"A nonpartisan organization that researches 'candidates for both national and state level office. Information includes voting records, campaign issue positions, evaluations by special interests, campaign contributions, backgrounds, previous experience and contact information.'"

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875), including the Senate Executive Journal (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91), senator from Pennsylvania in the 1st Congress; the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available as well.

"From University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries this is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. FRUS begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861" and ends with 1960.

"GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government"

"The Office of the Historian is staffed by professional historians who are experts in the history of U.S. foreign policy and the Department of State." The website offers historical documents including The Foreign Relations of the United States from 1945-1988.